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Peter Drahos rejoined the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) in 2006. His former positions include Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow in Intellectual Property at CCLS and officer of the Australian Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department. He holds degrees in law, politics and philosophy and is admitted as a barrister and solicitor. He has published widely in law and social science journals on a variety of topics including contract, legal philosophy, telecommunications, intellectual property, trade negotiations and international business regulation. He has worked as a consultant on international intellectual property issues for a number of organizations, including the European Commission, the UK Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, the Commonwealth Secretariat, Oxfam and the ASEAN Secretariat. He is also Director of the Centre for the Governance of Knowledge and Development at the Australian National University.

Peter Drahos, ‘Indigenous Developmental Networks and the Non-Developmental State: Making Intellectual Property Work for Indigenous People Without Patents’ in Ruth L. Okediji and Margo A. Bagley (eds), Patent Law in Global Perspective, Oxford University Press, New York, 2014, 287-320

‘Rethinking the Role of the Patent Office From the Perspective of Responsive Regulation’ in Frederick M. Abbott, Carlos M. Correa & Peter Drahos (eds.), Emerging Markets and the World Patent Order, Edward Elgar, 2013

The Global Government of Knowledge: Patent Offices and their Clients, Cambridge University Press (2010)

Death of a Patent System, in P. Drahos (Editor), Death of Patents, Witney: Lawtext Publishing, 2005, 1-10, ISBN: 0953940322 [URL]

The Regulation of Public Goods, in K.E. Maskus and J.H. Reichman (Editors), International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 46-64 ISBN: 0521603021 [URL]

Towards an International Framework for the Protection of Traditional Group Knowledge and Practice, in Twarog and Turner (Editors), Elements of National Sui Generis Systems for the Preservation, Protection and Promotion of Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices and Options for an International Framework, New York: UNCTAD, 2004

The Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the United States (Co-author with D. Henry) [2004] 328 (7451) British Medical Journal 1271-1272, ISSN: 0959-535X [URL]

Zero Tolerance, Naming and Shaming: Is There a Case for it with Crimes of the Powerful? (Co-author with J. Braithwaite) [2002] 35(3) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology 269-288, ISSN: 0004-8658 [URL]